Call for Papers: Performance Matters 10.2: “Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action”
Performance Matters is seeking submissions for its upcoming issue, “Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action.” This issue will focus on artistic expressions that create renewed awareness of the networks of relations that create territory in the context of Indigenous sovereignties and decolonization. We seek artistic articulations, theoretical questionings, and critical engagement with notions of place making: ways in which our creative actions animate shared spaces as well as how place animates us. In this follow-up to Performing (in) Place: Moving on/with land, the editors (Jenn Cole and Melissa Poll) are interested in actions that exist in addition to/beyond spoken acknowledgments of territory and how these actions enable Indigenous people, other than human kin, and Settler collaborators to lift each other up in resurgent and decolonization efforts.
We are asking for scholarly essays (7,000-9,000 words), performance/movement scripts and/or artist manifestos, interviews, practitioner praxis reflections and reviews (1,000-3,000 words). We encourage you to consider contributing within your preferred media (audio, video, visual art etc.). Performance Matters supports multiple formats of sharing work and we are hoping to create an issue for the senses. We are asking for abstracts or expressions of interest from artists/scholars by July 15, 2023. Full submissions will be required by Nov. 15.
Please let us know your availability/interest via jenncole@trentu.ca and melissajpoll@gmail.com. We're open to new ideas and formats so please don't hesitate to be in touch with questions.
Read more about Call for Papers: Performance Matters 10.2: “Performing (in) Place: Space, Relation, Action”